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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · 1d

The path forward was laid out pretty clearly in sept 2024 by the UN General Assembly Resolution on Palestine.

resolution calls for Israel to withdraw its military forces, immediately cease all new settlement activity, evacuate all settlers from occupied land
return land and all assets seized.

UN General Assembly demands Israel end ‘unlawful presence’ in Occupied Palestinian Territory

The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution that demands that Israel “brings to an end without delay its unlawful presence” in the Occupied Palestinian ...

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · 1d

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2 years into the war, these figures illustrate the scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza | CBC News

For two years, Palestinians across the Gaza Strip have faced unrelenting bombardment, mass hunger and recurring displacement as Israeli fighting continues in the desolate territory.

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · 1d

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2 years into the war, these figures illustrate the scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza | CBC News

For two years, Palestinians across the Gaza Strip have faced unrelenting bombardment, mass hunger and recurring displacement as Israeli fighting continues in the desolate territory.

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · 3d

The President is unhinged

‘The president is unhinged’: Trump’s online behavior grows increasingly odd

The US president’s recent behavior is strange to many, from reposting a false AI video of himself to confusing comments during press conferences

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · 5d

Trump “Israel must stop bombing now”
Fugitive war criminal Netanyahu:We will recover all our hostages, while the Israeli military will remain in most of the Gaza Strip," no Palestinian State. What country will he attack now? What massacre will he stage? The killing in Gaza will not stop. #gaza #cbc

Israeli defence minister says Palestinians who stay in Gaza City will be considered militants | CBC News

Israel's defence minister on Wednesday ordered all remaining Palestinians to leave Gaza City, saying it was their "last opportunity" and that anyone who stayed would be considered a militant supporter...

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · 18d

A senior Meta employee described how his own daughter had been solicited via Instagram in testimony to Congress. His efforts to fix the problem were ignored.
Meta’s social networks have become marketplaces for child predators. accused Meta of enabling adults to find, message and groom children.

Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms

Employees fretted over company’s ‘negligible’ response to child grooming, according to internal documents made public in lawsuit

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · 18d

It’s Meta corporate policy to match young girls with old men , it’s been reported on before and revealed by insiders. But we’re supposed to worry about TikTok? Which is why I only use TikTok

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We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny

Result of Guardian Australia experiment aligns with research showing social media automatically delivers troubling content to young men, largely without oversight

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · 22d

Ta-Nehisi Coates in Vanity Fair - reading the words

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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · 22d

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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · 23d

“Netanyahu faces an arrest warrant for war crimes from the international criminal court, and the international court of justice is weighing allegations that his government is committing genocide.”
Encouraged to see this at end of the Rubio article rather than the usual ‘war started oct 7’ nonsense

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · 28d

Turning Point USA's history of racism and white nationalist ties

Charlie Kirk’s youth-focused right-wing organization Turning Point USA has become increasingly radicalized over the last decade, frequently leaning in to Christian fundamentalist rhetoric and lies abo...

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · 28d

#cbc evan dyer

ANALYSIS | Qatar did what the U.S. and Israel asked. The missiles came anyway | CBC News

The Israeli attack on a Hamas residence in Qatar represents a reversal from years in which the U.S. was content to let Qatar host figures from Hamas and the Taliban and provide a neutral venue for the...

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · 28d

#gaza #warcriminals #ghf

Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites

BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · 29d

Dual citizen IDF soldiers should be prosecuted for war crimes when returning from Israel. Monsters

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The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich

Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · 29d

Former Israeli Naftali Bennet should have been barred from Canada in June 2023 as well Canada's laws designate the "transfer of parts of the occupying power's civilian population into occupied territory" as a war crime” Canadian citizens who live in the Palestinian Occupied terr. Should face 🇨🇦 Law.

Mendicino faces court application over whether Canada's laws allow entry of former Israeli PM | CBC News

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is facing a court application aimed at forcing him to determine whether Canada's war crime laws prevent former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett from attend...

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · Aug 30

the Israeli military had carried out strikes in the same area a day earlier, killing six Syrian troops who had found Israeli listening and spying devices there. The troops were in the process of dismantling the devices when they were killed

Israeli forces raid former air defence base near Syrian capital

Operation at site south of Damascus is deepest into Syrian territory since ousting of Bashar al-Assad last year

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · Aug 30

Heavy bombardment has been reported in Gaza City early on Saturday
At least 50 people have been killed in Gaza today.

Int ‘l day of the victims of enforced disappearance, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society reports that Israel continues to forcibly disappear thousands of people abducted from Gaza.

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · Aug 30

Meanwhile the out of control terrorist state Israel attacks Yemen & Invades Syria”On Friday, Israeli media reported that the Israeli army attacked the entire Houthi cabinet, including the prime minister and 12 other ministers, who were all likely killed in Thursday’s strikes on Sanaa.

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Yemen’s Houthis confirm Israeli airstrike killed the group’s prime minister

The Israeli military had attacked Sanaa on Thursday as tensions in the region escalate amid Israel’s war on Gaza.

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · Aug 25

To be clear Israel also developed a high tech shrapnel bomb packed with small ball bearings spraying bearings in a large radius and inflicting devastating injuries hard to remove. Monsters

Israeli weapons packed with shrapnel causing devastating injuries to children in Gaza, doctors say

Surgeons who worked in European and al-Aqsa hospitals describe extensive wounds caused by ‘fragmentation’ shrapnel experts say is designed to maximize casualties

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · Aug 25

Anti-Palestinian racism report calls for Canada to recognize May 15 as Nakba Day | CBC News

A new report from the Islamophobia Research Hub at York University calls on governments across Canada to increase oversight on how universities, schools, police forces and Parliament deal with the rec...

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · Aug 21

Disgraceful- cancel it. Sanctions now!

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war

Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · Aug 21

The court also said it has reasonable grounds to believe Netanyahu and Gallant, who was fired as defence minister earlier this month, are criminally responsible in the "war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts”

ICC issues arrest warrants for Israeli PM, former defence minister over alleged war crimes in Gaza | CBC News

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant for alleged crimes against humanity an...

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · Aug 20

The one year UN deadline 124 countries to evacuate Israel’s paramilitary settlers from the Occupied Territories 🇵🇸
the 🇮🇱 occupation, with its settlements and extremist settlers, “would not be viable” if countries that respected international law and the ICJ’s legal opinion decided to boycott Israel

UN members back resolution directing Israel to leave occupied territories

General assembly votes overwhelmingly in favour of Palestinian resolution after ICJ ruling in July

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · Aug 19

Four-time Olympian Moh Ahmed is one of 413 Canadian signatories calling on Tennis Canada to cancel Canada's Davis Cup tie with Israel in Halifax this September.
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Sporting sanctions were effective in ending South African Apartheid
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Olympic runner Moh Ahmed joins call to cancel Canada's Davis Cup tie with Israel | CBC Sports

Four-time Olympian Moh Ahmed is one of 413 Canadian signatories calling on Tennis Canada to cancel Canada's Davis Cup tie with Israel in Halifax this September.

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The Spirit of Chomsky @spiritofchomsky.bsky.social · Aug 17

As this map from National Geographic Dec 1947 clearly shows Gaza was part of the Palestinian state alongside a Jewish state in Palestine. As mandated by the UN Special Committee on Palestine 1947. Israel is ethnically cleansing and mass murdering the Palestinians in their historic homeland.

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